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Review 1DiscussionA review by Peter McGinn
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Written by Peter McGinn on Sat Sep 12 2020
It seems every forty years or so, someone makes a new film version of this children’s classic novel. Mary Pickford did it silently in 1920, Walt Disney applied star power in 1960, and now here we have this PBS Masterpiece Theater version.
Both Disney and this adaptation made changes to the story from the novel, though in different ways from each other and nothing distressing. This version seems less dramatic, which allows newcomer actress Georgina Terry to shine as much as standout child actress Hayley Mills did in the earlier version.
Although this version changes the time period and mo...
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